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Top2500 will be posted about 6PM EST & may not include the 2 early games nor No Selections.
For grins, will post the Survivor picks when Top2500 posted. Got 11 of 15 correct yesterday, how many today? Hmmm.
Thoughts on leader’s pick today? Orlando has bad numbers vs righties/away games. Subpar numbers all the way around, except for the past 30 days where he’s been hot @ 417 but dropping n last 10 days to 317. Here’s another positive: 2-4 vs Cook this year, over 500 lifetime.

Today’s current Top2500 listing. Note that list only includes those with streaks of 15 or greater, totalling 187 players. Anyone shorter streak is mathematically eliminated from cash prizes. 53 different players picked.

Day games on Tuesday?
Late But:
Hunter Pence playing hard as I watched Cub v. Stros last night. Thinking there is a hit in his bat tonight v. Wells ov Cubs who is hittable. Could be in 1st inning as Wells has a first inning phobia.

Hey champ88, are you going to continue posting Top2500ish for rest of the month? If so, I won’t. This way we don’t post over each other like today.
How does it look? Maybe in future posts, just comma delimit the picks @ 1? Or maybe similar to the way the $3M runners were being tracked a week ago….
@17: list of picks
@15: list of picks
@4: list of picks
etc
Just a suggestion

@champ88: “I tried to keep your style as exact as I could, so people will not be thrown off.”
Blog clock must off again, sprinkling posts around in non-sequential order. Anyway, I think that was a reply to my question above. Anyway, you going to do it from now on?

@champ88: “which days in the next week can you use the program?”
Any day where 1st game is on/after 3PM Eastern & on all weekends. But on weekdays, the listing won’t be posted earlier than 5PM Eastern. After this week is over, the listing may be pretty small & compact enough to easily include all still in the running & also to do by hand if needed w/o a program

What happened to this blog? There used to be good information about the BTS picks. Now its infested with useless ramblings and jealousy posts. I hope the guy in the lead does win just to shut them up. Now we have 2 lists so they can have their multiple orgasms everytime someone loses his streak. Why do they care so much about other’s picks?

@gyroman92. When was last time you came to the blog? That Top2500 listing has been running since mid-April I think. And until recently, when most people have been eliminated, the blog continually has had some nice info about picks. Maybe you should consider contributing?

gyroman – Please post who you liked today (Wed) and share your reasoning and please do the same for Thursday.
I posted that I liked Hunter Pence today.
This info is helpful to all.
Inside info on your team is appreciated too.
Thanks………………

Survivor Calculator picks by level of confidence:
Good: CIN, ATL, CWS, CHC
So-So: *MIN, STL, OAK, BOS
Iffy: *NYY, *TOR, *CLE, PHI, NYM, AZ, *SD,
* indicates matchups where a team vs pitcher little to no history
If this proves to be a good return like yesterday, I’ll post tomorrow’s picks later tonite. My idea is that picking a good batter from one of the teams that appear is going to win, may have a higher pct of getting a hit. Corrupted logic? Maybe.

Hi everyone I was at the Yankee game today so I was unable to post earlier. Yesterday’s results: Albert Pujols was a half success, succeeding in beat the streak and failing in home run. In survivor the Blue Jays beat the Rangers.
Today’s picks;
Beat the Streak: Robinson Cano (Safe)
Survivor: Yankees (Win)- Swisher is the hero saving the day and my streak.
Home run: Jose Batista

@champ88. Same here, kinda. Picked Infante 187 vs Duke because I believed ATL would win & hit well, giving a great batter an extra AB. That worked out too, in fact he may get 7 ABs if not pulled.
Leader’s pick benched. So streak remains steady unless Orlando comes in for pinch hitting (possible).

So is tomorrow gonna be the day Tulo screws us? He looks ripe for picking but I am afraid of the CIN’s pitcher. Either he is going back to pitching well or the league has figured him out. I still want to try to beat my personal best for the season. I still have a chance @ 30+ in my last drive.

ATL have to face Wainwright. He has been iffy but he turned in a couple of complete masterpices last month amongst mediocres. If Wainwright is on, Infante or Prado will 0-fer. And Wainwright pitches well against righties anyway.

I am glad my streak don’t count for peanuts because I would be going nuts trying to find a pick for tomorrow.

I switched back to Matt Holliday. Travis Wood has a .212 average against far UNDER my don’t pick below .240 average against rule. It could be the 1st day game that Tulowitzki goes 0 fer and I don’t want to be in that party.

If anyone can use this info, here it is. I’ve been 18 of 28 in picks of all games over last 2 days. Still 2 games to go tonite & picked SD & OAK to win; both winning at the moment — so, maybe 20 of 30 overall.
FYI only, you should do your own research.
To win tomorrow: CWS, *LAD, *CIN, STL, SF, *TOR
(*) indicates matchups where “team vs pitcher” has little to no history/data for 1 of the teams

I found a couple of daring picks. Definitely left of field picks but I just saw the leader’s posts and I don’t want him to blame me if I influnced him in any nagative way. Keep searching. There are a couple of them out there. I guess I can afford to pick them since my streak don’t count but I am still trying to pretend that I am making the pick under “real” situation.

Honestly, my biggest pet peeve about this game is the deadline for making picks. I absolutely have no problem them making the deadline 5 minutes before the game starts. What I would suggest(and it would of certainly influenced/changed my pick today) is, for example, make a 5:00 cutoff for games at 5:05, and then for people that are eyeing games that start at 7:05, make it a 7:00. This prevents people from picking people who will not be in the lineup for that given game, because the worst way to lose would be way of the pinch hitter. I don’t see any clear cut advantage with the system I just proposed.

@bretzky26. Would be nice if that could be done, but should a game start early (rare) due to potential rain, even 30 minutes early, MLB would have to scramble to update systems to update locks. Oh, and for those that think they can cheat with multiple accounts & get away with it…. pick a game at 5 & if lose, pick another at 7 with another account. Then there’s the issue of the leaderboard. If I’m competing with you for a run at the money and I see you picked and lost, that might influence my pick to include an injured one that won’t play. The above scenarios are all possible and maybe can be prevented but I dont’ see the game changing. I’d also like to wait if possible. Even for Survivor… knowing who is in the lineup can help determine a team to pick. Not knowing until 6 hours later sucks.

I think the leader will at least take the Dick’s prize. He is only 6 games away. He has a good momentum and luck going his way. Strange things happen that inexplicably go his way. And he is using a method that has not been seen before. I didn’t even know until now Cabrera didn’t start today. I had him confused with Phillips for some reason.

@btsplayer. Use rotoworld to help with lineup changes. Maybe the leader will get 44 or better. Then again, I thought Geoff would beat it a by a couple games & when Dick was alone at the top, I wasn’t sure he’d stop at 43 either. Luck has a way of turning on a dime.

Acutally, I just spent the last 1/2 hr looking though and tomorrow is not that bad. There are some good picks, albeit iffy, if you look outside the box just a bit. But this year has been iffy picks almost everyday. And most of the so-called solid picks have been the biggest streak killers after everyone piles in on it. If you’re just looking for name brand players, you not going to find a good one tomorrow.

@champ88. Post the Top2500 tomorrow if you would.
@bretzky26: Good luck chasing 44. But once you hit that, I & many more will be digging thru our jinx boxes until we find something that works, be warned

To win tomorrow: CWS, *LAD, *CIN, STL, SF, *TOR
rotoworld: Kemp/Furcal being rested. LAD prediction based on flawed info. Can’t update my program before games lock. I’ll consider the LAD/HOU game as a no-pick.

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